Setup EPEL and RepoForge (RPMForge) YUM Repositories on CentOS/RHEL 7

EPEL ( Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ) and RepoForge both is open source based repositories of software packages for linux based flavors system like CentOS, Red Hat Linux and Scientific Linux . Both repositories having thousands of software package in rpm format.

RepoForge earlier called as RPMForge. RepoForge having lot of linux binary RPM packages storage and EPEL ( Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ) repository is a project of fedora community , they built , manages top quality extra packages for enterprise as well as other linux based system like RHEL ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux) , Scientific Linux (SL).

Features of EPEL & RepoForge Repositories :

Both repositories provides packages for servers, desktop and development.

Both supports in open source community .

Bulk package management work with YUM commands .

Now we are going to install both EPEL & RepoForge repository on Latest version of RHEL/CentOS 7 or 7.X. First we need to download rpm package from respective project repository and then install from RPM command.Find below to install EPEL & RepoForge repository on CentOs/RHEL 7 and Scientific Linux etc.